Ghia When her eyes opened, she was standing in an unfamiliar place which at the same time was completely known to her. A city, she thought. Tall buildings reached into the sky, formed from...delicate glass? Crystals? The very wind itself? The city seemed blown into existence. She spun, taking it all in. Snowfields stretched out beyond the city in one direction, a frozen desert upon which the wind howled. The sun beat down on her, but she barely felt it. Looking down, she saw she was completely naked. Yet she was not cold. She didn't even shiver. Her entire body hummed in a wholly pleasant temperature. She continued her exploration of the city, using only her eyes. She could see so much; of late her eyesight had started to fail, forcing her to use reading glasses, but now it seemed that

